Sparewheel
on bonnet
Spare-wheel-on-the-bonnet:
Many
Defender Owners do like the look.
This page was more or less intended
for GERMAN reads only,
as we do have some problems to get the Defender road-legal
with such a construction:-/
Especially if we do not want to have it on top
of the bonnet day-in-day-out.
A detailed
discription can be found on the german pages.
But to give you some impressions
of the work I did -
here are the pics:
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The
result: A cerificate.
YEP
EDIT:
May
2006. Everybody told me this will happen.
And it did.
I had to change
the hinge-joint, because the wheel was far to heavy for the old ones.
Edit:
In order to open the bonnet after pulling the bonnet release in the
cab (for the first few centimeters) I added a second spring to the opening mechanism: 
This
spring originates from an engine, it's an valve spring (300TDI).